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Frederick Balderston

Professor Emeritus
Haas Manufacturing and Information Technology Group
1-510-642-4558
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Academic Status: Emeritus
Office Hours: By appointment, F434
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Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/oitm/

Education

BA, Cornell University
MA, economics, Princeton University
Ph.D., economics, Princeton University

Positions Held

At Haas since 1953
1994 - 98 Executive Director of the Bernard Osher Foundation
1991 - present Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1961 - 91 Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1983 Associate Dean, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1979 - 81 Associate Dean, Graduate School of Business Administration, UC Berkeley
1968 - 70 Vice President, Planning and Analysis, University of California (systemwide)
1966 - 69 Chairman, California State Committee on Public Education
1966 - 68 Vice President, Business and Finance, University of California (systemwide)
1963 - 65 California Savings and Loan Commissioner, State of California
1957 - 61 Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1953 - 57 Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1950 - 53 Research Associate in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Visiting Appointments:
Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University)
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar

External Service and Assignments

Former special assistant to the President of the University of California
Former chairman: Center for Research in Management, School of Business Administration, UC Berkeley
Director: California Nature Conservancy, Bernard Osher Foundation, and Golden West Financial Corporation (1974-88)
Life Trustee: AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc.
Consultant: Ford Foundation, National Institute of Education; National Academy of Sciences; Harvard Institute for International Development and Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia; Alexander Consulting Group, and other business organizations
Member: American Economic Association, Commonwealth Club

Current Research and Interests

Strategic planning and management
Financial management and regulation
Research on consumer financial services
Strategic management of higher education institutions

Selected Papers and Publications

"Tuition and Financial Aid in Higher Education: The Case of California," Economics of Education Review, Special Issue in Memory of Charles S. Benson, 1996.
Managing today’s University: Strategies for Viability, Change and Excellence, 2nd edition. Spring 1995, Jossey-Bass, Inc., San Francisco. 299p.
"Cost-effectiveness Methodologies for University Decisions," chapter 5 in Gerald L. Schmaedick, Editor, Cost-Effectiveness in the Non-Profit Sector. 1993. Quorum Books, Greenwood Press. Westport, Conn. and London. pp. 59-78.
"Facade and Self-Deception in the Deteriorating Financial Firm," California Management Review, Winter 1986.
Thrifts in Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Co., December 1984. 190 p.
"Strategic Management Approaches for the 1980s: Navigating in the Trough," in J.A. Froomkin (ed.), The Crisis in Higher Education (New York: The Academy of Political Science, 1983).
"Challenges for the Universities: Managing through the Transitions of the 1980s," International Journal of Higher Education, 3:1 (May 1979).

Teaching

BA 299F-1, Strategic Planning, Spring 1999
E290Z-1, Strategic Planning, Spring 1999

Honors and Awards

Berkeley Citation, 1991

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